New judge to hear retrial of boy, now 15, sentenced to prison as adult for murder

Whitley County judge to hear Paul Henry Gingerich case

8:33 PM,
Apr. 1, 2013

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The judge who ruled that a 12-year-old boy should be tried for murder as an adult will not preside over a retrial of the case later this spring.

Judge Duane Huffer, a juvenile court judge in Kosciusko County, ruled in 2010 that the case of Paul Henry Gingerich should move to circuit court and the boy tried as an adult. It eventually led to Gingerich pleading guilty to a conspiracy to commit murder charge and him receiving a 25-year sentence, making him what is believed to be the youngest Hoosier ever sentenced to prison as an adult.

Whitley County Circuit Judge James Heuer, who handles juvenile and ...